As a non-Japanese-speaking Asian, I noticed something that caught me off guard almost everywhere I went in Japan: staff at restaurants and hotels default to speaking Japanese with me. Luckily, I’ve learned all of the hiragana for one semister […]

I recently got back from a trip to Japan, and I found so many incredible food finds along the way. This is the first post in a new series on Japanese food and travel. If a trip to Japan […]